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Currency will be kept on the gold standard. The Bonus, with payment in fiat money, will not get by. In general the financial policy of the Democrats will be not to inflate currency but to scale down debts by indirect means...
...Enemy of the Stars," now issued for the first time in book form, is perhaps now interesting because of the great effect it has had and because it represents a somewhat archaic example of an art form now more fully developed. Its influence has for the most part been indirect since it effected the form of the play in the middle of "Ulysses", and that book in turn has had almost more influence than any other single volume of prose on contemporary literature...
...with a $10 check. First day's collections: $197.50. Campaign budget: $1,500,000. Two days later Nominee Roosevelt went to Sea Girt, N. J.. where Boss Frank Hague had massed 100,000 Democrats to hear him speak on Prohibition. Flaying the Republican plank for being "long, indirect, ambiguous, insincere, false,'' the Democratic nominee declared: "Words upon words, a dense cloud of words! . . . Senator Borah said it sounded Wet to him. President Butler said the words were Dry." Governor Roosevelt charged his opponent with using "pussycat words" in his acceptance speech and deliberately misrepresenting the Democratic...
...papers and, until his death, the scoldings (for price-cutting) of U. S. Steel's Judge Elbert Henry Gary. But with mills running at a fraction of capacity, steel companies have fought like jackals for what busi ness there was. Price-cutting, price-shading, concessions to favored customers, indirect rebates have demoralized the trade. Though steelmen testily deny that they are enthroning a "tsar," President Lament's chief job will be to whip steel companies into a strong and united price front, stamp out the buyer's notion that he can always wheedle a profit-sucking concession...
Last week a new estimate of Ivar Kreuger's estate showed that he left personal debts of $125,000,000, indirect liabilities of $100,000,000 more, practically no free assets of any sort...